Posts by gr8gatzby

HP Pavilion 6000 series. Some keys stopped working, so to verify that it was the keyboard and not some malware, I verified with an external keyboard, and by booting into a live Ubuntu disc. Once verifying that the issue was not OS...

Currently installed on my system are FF, IE, Chrome, and Safari...hands down Safari wins the speed contest, it has some pretty trick visual features too. I like Chrome's form and function, and it's speed is close to that of Safari. My...

has anyone compiled a list of programs that require XP mode to function

I just performed a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on my HP Pavilion dv9823cl / 2.0ghz AMD X2 / 4gb / 500gb laptop. When attempting to install zone alarm firewall, i am presented with the following error message: "You...

Quote: Originally Posted by Seablade What you are going to have to do is create a boot disk. Does the Vaio have a Floppy in it? Essentially what will happen is the computer would boot the floppy, and that in turn...

I'm resurrecting a PIII era Sony Vaio that has no cd drive. I created a bootable USB stick via Ubuntu, in the hopes of loading the distro this way. However, booting via USB isn't shown as an option in the BIOS. There's got to be a way to...

Installed a secondary 250gb disk into my HP Pavilion dv9823cl and when attempting to format the disk I receive the following error message: "the operation cannot be completed because the disk is not initialized" any ideas?

this is getting stranger by the moment. i booted up with one stick at a time and both checked out as bonafide 2gb chips. i then switched the order of the chips and installed the crucial 2gb into slot 1 and the factory installed samsung...

Bought a refurb HP dv9823cl from buy.com for $600. Specs: dual core 2.0ghz AMD TL-60, 17" WXGA, a/b/g/n, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M. Firstly, it came with 32bit Vista to which i wiped and attempted an XP install with no success in...

Just bought an HP Pavilion 17"/2ghz/250gb/3gb RAM/GeForce Go and it comes with Vista premium. I've never met a Vista system that I liked and have downgraded many to XP Pro for friends and clients. Is Vista ready for primetime yet,...